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60s - stereo remixes & processed 'stereo' by ruudtes - 1
60s - stereo remixes & processed 'stereo' by ruudtes
Edit 2 for headphones, May 2022. A "bit" too much bass, so... enjoy !
Recorded on February 18, 1969. Released on the album "Let It Bleed" on December 5, 1969. Source of the edit is the song on the album "Let It Bleed" (2006 remastered Japanese mini lp UICY-93029).
Autoharp: Brian Jones. Vocals: Keith Richards. Acoustic & slide guitars: Keith Richards. Bass: Bill Wyman. Drums: Charlie Watts. Piano & organ: Nicky Hopkins.
YOU GOT THE SILVER
(Jagger/Richards)
hey babe what's in your eyes
I saw them flashing like airplane lights
you fill my cup babe that's for sure
I must come back for a little more
you got my heart you got my soul
you got the silver you got the gold
you got the diamonds from the mine
well that's all right, it'll buy some time
tell me honey, what will I do
when I'm hungry and thirsty too
feeling foolish and that's for sure
just waiting here at your kitchen door
hey baby, what's in your eyes
is that the diamonds from the mine
what's that laughing in your smile
I don't care, no, I don't care
oh babe, you got my soul
you got the silver, you got the gold
it's just your love, just leave me blind
I don't care, no, that's no big surprise
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The Temptations with their beautiful song "My Girl".
The performance was all dubbed, so I replaced the mono music of the video with a stereo version of the song... with a touch of ruudtes.
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MY GIRL
(Smokey Robinson and Ronald White)
I got sunshine, on a cloudy day
when it's cold outside, I got the month of May
I guess, you'll say,
what can make me feel this way
my girl (my girl) my girl
talkin' 'bout my girl (my girl)
I go so much honey, the bees envy me
I've got a sweeter song, than the birds in the trees
well, I guess, you'll say,
what can make me feel this way
my girl (my girl) my girl
talkin' 'bout my girl (my girl)
oooh oooh
hey, hey, hey,
hey, hey, hey, (oooh)
I don't need no money, fortune or fame
I've got all the riches, baby, one man can claim
well, I guess, you'll say,
what can make me feel this way
my girl (my girl) my girl
talkin' 'bout my girl (my girl)
(talkin' 'bout my girl)
I got sunshine, on a cloudy day, my girl
I even got the month of May
(talking 'bout my girl) my girl, talkin' 'bout, talkin' 'bout
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Not an edit. This is from a Frankenstein bootleg, which says: "This is a Frankenstein Christmas gift, a little gift to celebrate Christmas, in the pure Frankenstein tradition, a mix of Keith & Mick's voices on two tracks they have interpreted.
Wishing you all happy holidays and long life to the Stones, by Norbert (aka StonyRoad)."
This song is on the bootleg "Mick & Keith Mixing Voices: A Little Gift For Xmas 2019!" (Frankenstein Production - xmas2019).
I tell you: what has been done is ultra difficult, a warm thank you to Norbert for an outstanding editing job !
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* warning: loud sounds may damage your ear's cilia, and damaged cilia cannot heal, the damage is irreparable !
(Photos at 1:49 to 1:53 taken on the doorstep outside Brian's house at 7, Elm Park Lane off Fulham Road, Chelsea in late 1965.)
If you're interested in bootlegs then here is an extensive list
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is this a super charged full frequency recording range live performance home stereo equipment effect? No, just an edit for headphones. Or what?
"Nashville cats" a 1966 USA no. 8 hit, UK no. 26 hit. Januari 1967 it entered the Dutch Top 40, reaching no. 14.
John Benson Sebastian: songwriter, vocals, guitar, harmonica, autoharp, founder of the band. Zalman "Zal" Yanovsky: lead guitar, vocals, founder of the band (cowboy hat). Steve Boone: bass. Joe Butler: drums, vocals.
NASHVILLE CATS
(John Benson Sebastian)
Nashville cats, play clean as country water
Nashville cats, play wild as mountain dew
Nashville cats, been playin' since they's babies
Nashville cats, get work before they're two
Well, there's thirteen hundred and fifty-two
Guitar pickers in Nashville
And they can pick more notes than the number of ants
On a Tennessee anthill
Yeah, there's thirteen hundred and fifty-two
Guitar cases in Nashville
And any one that unpacks his guitar could play
Twice as better than I will
Yeah, I was just thirteen, you might say I was a
Musical proverbial knee-high
When I heard a couple new-sounding tunes on the tubes
And they blasted me sky-high
And the record man said every one is a yellow sun *
Record from Nashville
And up north there ain't nobody buys them
And I said, "But I will"
And it was
Nashville cats, play clean as country water
Nashville cats, play wild as mountain dew
Nashville cats, been playin' since they's babies
Nashville cats, get work before they're two
Well, there's sixteen thousand eight hundred and twenty-one
Mothers from Nashville
All their friends play music, and they ain't uptight
If one of the kids will
Because it's custom made for any mother's son
To be a guitar picker in Nashville
And I sure am glad I got a chance to say a word about
The music and the mothers from Nashville
Nashville cats, play clean as country water
Nashville cats, play wild as mountain dew
Nashville cats, been playin' since they's babies
Nashville cats, get work before they're two
Kick it...
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* The lyrics refer to the Sun Records company. While Sun was best known for first recording Elvis Presley, it also released songs by Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison.
Edit 1a for headphones. Recorded May 12 & 13, 1965. Released on the US version of the album "Out Of Our Heads" in 1965. It was not on the UK release of that album! Six years later it was released in the UK on "Stone Age". So that indeed took more than one try...
Harmonica: Brian Jones. Guitars: Brian Jones & Keith Richards. Bass: Bill Wyman. Drums: Charlie Watts. Lead vocals: Mick Jagger.
ONE MORE TRY
(Jagger/Richards)
you need some money in a hurry
but the things ain't right
you try to beg and borrow maybe start a fight
your friends don't wanna know you they just pass you by
so they couldn't be your friends because they wouldn't lie
sit down shut up don't dare cry
things're gettin' better if you really try
so don't ya panic don't ya panic
give it one more try
don't ya panic don't ya panic
give it one more try
you gotta girl that doesn't bring you all she cries
the day turns into night to try to satisfy
you bring her all the things she want she don't improve
you think you'd give her up and she'd maybe move
sit down shut up don't dare to cry
things're gettin' better if you really try
so don't ya panic don't ya panic
give it one more try
don't ya panic don't ya panic
give it one more try
try
the things that don't matter easy come and go
and the things that satisfy only come real slow
you gotta know a what you want in your mind
'cause it's better when you get it if you really try
so, sit down shut up don't dare cry
things're gettin' better if you really try
so don't ya panic don't ya panic
give it one more try
don't ya panic don't ya panic
give it one more try
keep on trying
keep on trying
keep on trying
keep on trying
keep on trying
you gotta keep trying
o such a good trying
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Edit for headphones. The studio recording of Muswell Hillbilly is on the album "Muswell Hillbillies", released in November 1971. The album is named after the Muswell Hill area of North London, where Ray and Dave Davies grew up and the band formed in the early 1960s. This video is a live performance on German tv.
"Stereo Review magazine" called it "album of the year" in 1972 (even though it was released on 24 November 1971). In the 1984 "Rolling Stone Album Guide", Rolling Stone editors gave the album five stars out of five and called it Davies' "signature statement" as a songwriter.
In a retrospective review for Allmusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine feels the album is a wide-ranging collection of Ray Davies compositions which focus on the tensions and frustrations of modern life. The album introduces a number of working class figures and the stresses with which they must contend.
Yet, the album was not a commercial success, it only charted in the US, no 100 in the Billboard 200.
personnel on the album:
Ray Davies: lead vocals, acoustic guitar, resonator guitar
Dave Davies: lead guitar, slide guitar, banjo, backing vocals
John Dalton: bass guitar, backing vocals
John Gosling: piano (acoustic and electric), Hammond organ, accordion
Mick Avory: drums, percussion
with:
Mike Cotton: trumpet
John Beecham: trombone, tuba
Alan Holmes: saxophone, clarinet
Vicki Brown: backing vocals on tracks 4 and 9
Ken Jones: harmonica on track 7
Mike Bobak & Richard Edwards: engineers
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The music/song and photos remain copyright of their respective owners and are strictly used here for educational, comparison and discussion reasons.
Edit 1a for headphones. Dubbed video. This is a "Top of the Pops" rehearsal video. I cut most rehearsal views of studio people and replaced them with "bits of Sandie".
The source of the edit is the song on the album "Top of the Pops 1965" (2007). "Long Live Love" is Sandie's second no 1 hit in the UK.
LONG LIVE LOVE
(Chris Andrews)
Venus must have heard my plea
she has sent someone along for me
I have waited a long long time
for somebody to call mine
and at last he's come along
baby oh nothing can go wrong
we meet every night at eight
and I don't get home till late
I say to myself each day
baby oh long long live love
mmm
true love must be the greatest thing
I know now why singers sing
of the moon and stars above
how I love to be in love
we meet every night at eight
and I don't get home till late
I say to myself each day
baby oh long long live love
mmm
now of one thing I'm more than sure
since love come I don't want more
than to kiss him every night
makes everything alright
we meet every night at eight
and I don't get home till late
I say to myself each day
baby oh long long live love
mmm
we meet every night at eight
and I don't get home till late
I say to myself each day
baby oh long long live love
mmm
long long live love
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The BBC a$$holes keep blocking this video on YouTube, lucky us that BitChute is here... WAY TO GO ! YEAH !
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LONG LONG LIVE FREE INTERNET !
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Edit 1a for headphones. Dave Davies' 1967 solo single.
The intro was played by Nicky Hopkins (who played the piano throughout), plucking the piano strings with a plectrum, the recording then using tape-echo and reverb. The 40 "la's" were sung by Ray Davies' wife and Ray himself sings harmony with his brother and another 39 "la's". So there are 158 la's in this song, which contains 138 other words. Says count Count.
DEATH OF A CLOWN
(Raymond Douglas (Ray) Davies, Dave Davies)
my makeup is dry and it cracks from my chin
I'm drowning my sorrows in whisky and gin
the lion tamer's whip doesn't crack anymore
the lions they won't fight and the tigers won't roar
la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
so let's all drink to the death of a clown
won't someone help me to break up this crown
let's all drink to the death of a clown
la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
let's all drink to the death of a clown
the old fortune teller lies dead on the floor
nobody needs fortunes told anymore
the trainer of insects is crouched on his knees
and frantic'lly looking for runaway fleas
la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
let's all drink to the death of a clown
so won't someone help me to break up this crown
let's all drink to the death of a clown
la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
let's all drink to the death of a clown
la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
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Edit 1a (r&r circus) for headphones. Another one from the "Rock And Roll Circus" that needed some of "enhancement". The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus is a film of an 11 December 1968 event organized by The Rolling Stones. The event comprised two concerts on a circus stage and included such acts as The Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and Jethro Tull. John Lennon and his fiancee Yoko Ono performed as part of a supergroup called The Dirty Mac, along with Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell, and Keith Richards. It was most likely the yelling-like-a-lunatic of Yoko Ono along with this "supergroup" that prevented this film to be released for many many years. It took 28 years before they finally did! Boy what a drag! She was so sad!
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edit for headphones. a january 1970 album release, released as a single in march 1970. a genuine canadian and american #1 hit by a canadian band.
a song about a band that preferred canadian girls over american; jim kale (bass) and co-author of the song said that after a tour in america it was just a real treat to go home and see the girls they had grown up with. another example of the devastating effect touring has on band members.
a #5 hit in holland.
AMERICAN WOMAN
(RANDY BACHMAN, BURTON CUMMINGS, GARY PETERSON, MICHAEL KALE)
American woman, I'm gonna mess your mind
American woman, you gonna mess your mind
American woman, I'm gonna mess your mind
American woman, I'm gonna mess your mind
Say A, say M, say E
Say R, say I, C
Say A, N
American woman, I'm gonna mess your mind
American woman, you gonna mess your mind
American woman, I'm gonna mess your mind
American woman, stay away from me
American woman, mama let me be
Don't come a hangin' around my door
I don't want to see your face no more
I got more important things to do
Than spend my time growin' old with you
Now woman, I said stay away
American woman, listen what I say
American woman, get away from me
American woman, mama let me be
Don't come a knockin' around my door
Don't want to see your shadow no more
Colored lights can hypnotize
Sparkle someone else's eyes
Now woman, I said get away
American woman, listen what I say-ay-ay-ay
American woman, said get away
American woman, listen what I say
Don't come a hangin' around my door
Don't want to see your face no more
I don't need your war machines
I don't need your ghetto scenes
Colored lights can hypnotize
Sparkle someone else's eyes
Now woman, get away from me
American woman, mama let me be
Go, gotta get away, gotta get away now go, go, go
I'm gonna leave you woman
Gonna leave you woman
Bye-bye bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye
You're no good for me
I'm no good for you
Gonna look you right in the eye
Tell you what I'm gonna do
You know I'm gonna leave
You know I'm gonna go
You know I'm gonna leave
You know I'm gonna go-o, woman
I'm gonna leave you woman
Goodbye American woman
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Edit 2 for headphones of the mono single. Some more bass on this one. A number one hit twice in Holland: in 1970, and in 1980 with the live version. #1 New Zealand, #2 UK, #2 Canada, #2 Germany, #4 Australia and # 9 in what's wrong with U, SA ?
Again the source file is (the mono version) from the great quality album "The Kinks Remastered" (1995 Castle cd # 268).
The line "You drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry cola" was recorded as "it tastes just like Coca-Cola." The BBC refused to play it because of the commercial reference, so Ray Davies flew from New York to London to change the lyric and get the song on the air.
(By the way: I like cherry cola the best.)
The Kinks were not the first to sing about Lola and Cola; an anti prohibition song from 1918 (amongst others sung by Edward Meeker) has the line: "At the table with Lola they will serve us Coca-Cola." The song is: "Ev'ry Day'll Be Sunday When The Town Goes Dry".
Ray Davies wrote the lyrics after the Kinks' manager got drunk at a club and started dancing with what he thought was a woman.
Dave Davies stated he deserved a songwriting credit on the track, leading to additional friction with his brother Ray, who got the sole composer credit. This is what has always bothered me: how can Jagger/Richards take all the credits, when it is a GROUP'S thing? How can one even bypass his brother in such things. I just don't understand it...
LOLA
(Ray Davies)
I met her in a club down in North Soho
Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry cola
C-O-L-A cola
She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
I asked her name and in a dark brown voice she said, "Lola"
L-O-L-A Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola
Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy
But when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine
Oh my Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola
Well, I'm not dumb but I can't understand
Why she walk like a woman and talk like a man
Oh my Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola
Well, we drank champagne and danced all night
Under electric candlelight
She picked me up and sat me on her knee
And said, "Little boy won't you come home with me?"
Well, I'm not the world's most passionate guy
But when I looked in her eyes
Well, I almost fell for my Lola
Lo lo lo lo Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola
Lola lo lo lo lo Lola lo lo lo lo Lola
I pushed her away, I walked to the door
I fell to the floor, I got down on my knees
I looked at her, and she at me
Well that's the way that I want it to stay
And I always want it to be that way for my Lola
Lo lo lo lo Lola
Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls
It's a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world
Except for Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola
Well I left home just a week before
And I've never ever kissed a woman before
But Lola smiled and took me by the hand
And said, "Little boy, gonna make you a man"
Well I'm not the world's most masculine man
But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man
And so is Lola
Lo lo lo lo Lola, lo lo lo lo Lo
Edit 1b for headphones.* Dubbed video. "You Can't Catch Me" is a song written and originally performed by Chuck Berry, released as a single in 1956. The song's lyrics mention racing a souped-up "air-mobile" down the New Jersey Turnpike (a toll road in New Jersey). It was featured in the 1956 Berry film "Rock Rock, Rock".
The Stones recorded the song June 24-26, 1964. Released on the 2nd U.K. studio album: "The Rolling Stones no. 2" Decca Records, date: January 15, 1965. Released in US on February 13, 1965 on the album "The Rolling Stones, Now!"
Electric guitars: Bian Jones & Keith Richards. Vocal: Mick Jagger. Bass: Bill Wyman. Drums: Charlie Watts.
YOU CAN'T CATCH ME
(Chuck Berry)
I bought a brand new airmobile
It was custom made
It was a Flight DeVille
With a poweful motor
And some hideaway wings
Push in on the button and you can hear her sing
Now you can't catch me
No, baby, you can't catch me
'Cause if you get too close
You know I'm gone like a cool breeze
New Jersey Turnpike in the wee wee hours
I was rolling slowly 'cause of drizzlin' showers
Up come a flattop he was movin' up with me
Then come sailin' goodbye
In a little old suped up mini
I put my foot in my tank and I begin to roll
Moanin' sirens, was the state patrol
So I get out my wings and then I blew my horn
Bye-bye New Jersey I become airborne
Now you can't catch me
No, baby you can't catch me
'Cause if you get too close
You know I'm gone like a cool breeze
Flyin' with my baby last Saturday night
Wasn't no gray cloud floatin' in sight
Big full moon shinin' up above
Cuddle up honey be my love
Sweetest little thing that I ever seen
I'm gonna name you Mabelline
Flyin' with all the things set on flight control
Radio tuned to rock 'n' roll
Two, three hours passin' by
Altitude dropped to 505
Fuel consumption way too fast
Let's get on home before we run out of gas
Now you can't catch me
No baby, you can't catch me
'Cause if you get too close
You know I'm gone like a cool breeze
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* this video is different from edit 1a, that video was blocked in the UK
Edit 1a (r&r circus) for headphones. This one from the "Rock And Roll Circus" also needed a bit of enhancement. The "Circus" was shot on film December 11, 1968. When Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones died in 1969, the studio version of this song took on new meaning, as lyrics like "Our love is like our music, it's here and then it's gone" made it a fitting elegy.
The uploader would like to add: if only there had been a little more friendship, well, then Brian's life story could have ended so very much happier, he might even have been still alive... if only there had been a little more friendship, patience and tolerance...
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Edit for headphones. Source file is the mono single version on the 1965 album "Kinda Kinks" (2011 deluxe edition remastered). Released in July 1965; this one was a #10 hit in the UK, #26 in Holland, #36 in Germany, #111 in the US.
It would be so great if someone somewhere would take the time to search the entire world around for chart information of all countries and add that to the Kinks discography on Wikipedia.
And not only the Kinks, also Rolling Stones would be super! Anyone?
The single was afforded a lukewarm reception at the time. Davies expressed disappointment at this, saying: "[It's] the only one I've really liked, and they're not buying it. You know, I put everything I've got into it ... It makes me think they must be morons or something. Look, I'm not a great singer, nor a great writer, not a great musician. But I do give everything I have ... and I did for this disc."
The song is a rare foray (a venture or an initial attempt, especially outside one's usual area) into psychedelic rock for the group, it is credited as the first Western rock song to integrate Indian raga sounds, being released four months before the Beatles' "Norwegian Wood". (Raga is a melodic mode used in Indian classical music.)
Ray Davies* said the song is about the death of his older sister, Rene, who fell ill due to a hole in her heart and died while dancing at a night club. Just before she died she gave him his first guitar for his 13th birthday.
Inspiration for the song came from a stopover in Bombay during The Kinks' 1965 Asian tour.
So they were the first, Beatles, Stones followed... (According to Ray Davies, he was approached by Paul McCartney before the Beatles' album Rubber Soul came out; Paul asked him about the unusual instrumentation on "See My Friends". Presumably this led to "Norwegian Wood".)
SEE MY FRIEND
(Ray Davies)
See my friend, see my friend
Layin' 'cross the river
See my friend, see my friend
Layin' 'cross the river
She is gone
She is gone and now there's no one left
'cept my friend, layin' 'cross the river
She just went, she just went
Went 'cross the river
Now she's gone, now she's gone
Wish that I'd gone with her
She is gone
She is gone and now there's no one left
'cept my friend, layin' 'cross the river
She is gone and now there's no one else to take her place
She is gone and now there's no one else to love
'cept my friend, layin' 'cross the river
See my friend, see my friend
Layin' 'cross the river
See my friend, see my friend
Layin' 'cross the river
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Not an edit (metamorphosis version). This song was recorded early September 1964. Afterwards female backing vocals were added for the 1975 album "Metamorphosis" to give the song a more stereo sound. One vocal outer left and one vocal outer right.
Drums: Andy White
Bass: (Bill Wyman?)
Acoustic guitars: Keith Richards and Jim Sullivan
Electric guitar: John McLaughlin or Jimmy Page
Lead vocals: Mick Jagger
Backing vocals: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards & Andrew Oldham
Backing vocals on this "Metamorphosis" version: unknown
Piano: (unknown)
Percussion & bells: (unknown)
Source file of this edit is the 2002 Abkco remastered release of the album "Metamorphosis" (90062).
(WALKIN' THRU THE) SLEEPY CITY
(Jagger/Richards)
walkin'thru' the sleepy city
in the dark it looks so pretty
till I got to the one cafe
that stays open night and day
just a lookin' at the sleepy city
in the night it looks so pretty
no one sees the city lights
they just care about the warmth inside
no one listens to what people say
I just sit and hear the radio play
just then this girl walked in my way
and she was as pretty as my sleepy city, and
will you walk through the sleepy city
in the night it looks so pretty
tired of walkin on my own
it looks better when you're not alone, o yeah
will you walk through the sleepy city
in the night it looks so pretty
I'm tired of walkin on my own
it looks better when you're not alone
mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm
mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm
la la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la la
will you walk through the sleepy city
in the night, well it looks so pretty
I'm tired of walkin on my own
it looks better when you're not alone, no
c'mon walk through that sleepy city
I said in the night it looks so pretty
I'm tired of walkin that park on my own
it looks better when you're not alone, no wow wow
mmm la la la
mmm la la la
mmm la la la la la
la la la la la la la
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Edit for headphones, December 2021. This is an edit of track one of the second cd of the two cd remastered reissue - the 2015 deluxe edition - of the January 1968 album "Procol Harum" by Esoteric Recordings (catalogue number ECLEC 22497). He he he. Great opening line, isn't it.
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" was the debut record on 12 May 1967. In 1967 it charted number one for five weeks in the Dutch Top 40 and was in the charts for 13 weeks; and then in 1972 it was for 12 weeks in the Dutch charts, including three weeks at number one. In 1967 it reached number one in the UK Singles Chart and stayed one for six weeks. It reached number 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It was one of the anthems of the 1967 "Summer of Love" (which in real was a summer of big income for the record companies & the parasites who usually surround musicians)(and at the bottom of this text is the proof that even some band members were double crossing another...). It is one of the most commercially successful singles in history, having sold more than 10 million copies worldwide...
personnel on the album:
hammond organ – Matthew Fisher
lead guitar – Robin Trower
bass guitar – David Knights
percussion – B.J. Wilson
vocals, piano – Gary Brooker
engineer – Eddie Offord, Frank Owen, Gerald Chevin, Keith Grant, Laurence Burridge
producer – Denny Cordell
mastered by – Nick Robbins
tracklist of the double album:
original album released as Regal Zonophone LRZ 1001 in January 1968:
1-1 Conquistador 2.33
1-2 She Wandered Through The Garden Fence 3.21
1-3 Something Following Me 3.33
1-4 Mabel 1.50
1-5 Cerdes (Outside The Gates Of) 4.59
1-6 A Christmas Camel 4.42
1-7 Kaleidoscope 2.49
1-8 Salad Days (Are Here Again) 3.33
1-9 Good Captain Clack 1.25
1-10 Repent Walpurgis 4.04
bonus tracks:
1-11 A Whiter Shade Of Pale [Single Version] 4.04
1-12 Lime Street Blues [Single Version] 2.50
1-13 Homburg [Single Version] 3.52
1-14 Good Captain Clack [Single Version] 1.28
1-15 Alpha 3.50
1-16 Salad Days (Are Here Again) 4.12
1-17 Understandably Blue 3.29
1-18 Pandora's Box [Instrumental] 3.05
1-19 Cerdes (Outside The Gates Of) [Alternate Mono Mix] 4.45
1-20 Something Following Me [Alternate Mono Mix] 3.38
2-1 A Whiter Shade Of Pale [Extended Early Version - March 1967] 6.04
2-2 Homburg [Extended Stereo Version] 5.33
2-3 Repent Walpurgis [Extended Stereo Version - August 1967] 7.27
2-4 Conquistador [1971 Stereo Mix] 2.39
2-5 She Wandered Through The Garden Fence [1971 Stereo Mix] 3.27
2-6 Something Following Me [Stereo Mix] 3.47
2-7 Mabel [Undubbed Stereo Mix] 1.55
2-8 Kaleidoscope [Stereo Mix] 3.08
2-9 Cerdes (Outside The Gates Of) [Stereo Mix] 5.23
2-10 Homburg [1971 Stereo Mix] 3.56
BBC "Easybeat" session, June 1967:
2-11 Morning Dew 3.11
2-12 A Whiter Shade Of Pale 5.12
2-13 Mabel 1.37
BBC "Top Gear" session, September 1967:
2-14 Homburg 3.50
2-15 Good Captain Clack 1.17
2-16 She Wandered Throu
Edit 1a (r&r circus) for headphones. This one from the "Rock And Roll Circus" is what we call 'narrow stereo', so it needed a bit of enhancement. The "Circus" was shot on film December 11, 1968, released 28 years later, in 1996, most likely because the Stones weren't satisfied with their performance. Well, it looks & sounds perfect to me!
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Edit for headphones, August 2021. A song from the debut album, the 1967 album "Safe As Milk" (deluxe edition).
The track is named after the Abba-Zaba candy bar, which was supposedly a favorite of the young Beefheart. The band had, at one point, planned to name the album after the confection, but the bar's manufacturer, the Cardinet Candy Co., refused permission for use of the name, and the album was retitled. The black and yellow checkerboard pattern on the album's back sleeve, designed by Tom Wilkes, is a relic of this idea—echoing the black and yellow colors of the candy bar wrapper.
ABBA ZABA
(Don van Vliet a.k.a. Captain Beefheart)
song before song before song blues
babbette baboon, babbette baboon abba zaba zoom
two shadows at noon, abba zaba zoom
babbette baboon, abba zaba zoom
babbette baboon
comin' over pretty soon, babbette baboon
well run, run, catch her soon, draft of dawn, sunshine on
babbette baboon
mother say son, she say son, you can't lose, with the stuff you use
abb a zab a zoom, babbette baboon
abb a zab a zoom, babbette baboon
yabba zaba zoom, two shadows at noon
abba zaba zoom, gonna catch her soon
abba zaba zoom, babbette baboon babbette baboon
run, run, monsoon, Indian dream, tiger moon
yellow bird fly high, tabacco sky, two shadows at noon
babbette baboon gonna catch her soon babbette baboon
song before song before song blues
babbette baboon, abb a zab a zoom
babbette baboon, abb a zab a zoom, babbette baboon
yabba zaba zoom
two shadows at noon, abba zaba zoom
gonna catch her soon, abba zaba zoom, babbette baboon
babbette baboon
run, run, morning soon, Indian dream, tiger moon
yellow bird fly high, tabacco sky, two shadows at noon
babbette baboon, gonna catch her soon, babbette baboon
gonna catch her soon, babbette baboo
bird fly high, tabacco sky, two shadows at noon
gonna catch her soon, babbette baboo
gonna catch her soon, babbette baboo
abba zaba zoom
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Edit 1a (r&r circus) for headphones. Another one from the "Rock And Roll Circus", very narrow stereo, or let's just say quite mono, that needed some sound "enhancement". The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus is a film of an 11 December 1968 event organized by The Rolling Stones. The original line up was going to be The Faces, The Rolling Stones and The Who and the concept of a circus was firstly thought up between Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane and was originally meant to be aired on the BBC, but the Rolling Stones withheld it. The Stones stated they did so because their performance wasn't very good. Others think the true reason was that The Who performed far better than the Stones. As is clearly to be seen & heard the Stones' performance was undoubtedly good, and it is also clearly to be seen & heard that anyone present wittnessed the awful messing up of this event by Yoko Ono, screaming and yelling like an idiot. I'm convinced the audience must have had their toes crooked and their ears covered during her "singing". No wonder the whole thing was postponed! For twenty eight years! Another reason may be the fact that all artists were recorded in stereo, while of the six songs the Stones performed' only two were stereo (no expectations & you can't always get what you want); the other five songs were recorded narrow stereo.
Nice thing about this video: Keith Richards reads the lines from a paper that Mick Jagger holds in his hands for him, watch him turning the page at 1.49.
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Edit 1b for headphones. A May 1972 UK no 16 hit, Germany too, no 25 in always-recognizing-a-great-song-Holland and 86 places lower, no 111 in USA... and that for THE space ship part of the world!
A song from the 1972 album "Everybody's In Show-Biz, Everybody's A Star" (2010 remastered + bonus tracks) Sanctuary Records UICY-20083. Edited for some more bass and some other ruudtes' extra's.
SUPERSONIC ROCKET SHIP
(Ray Davies)
let me take you on a little trip
my supersonic ship's at your disposal
if you feel so inclined, well alright
we're gonna travel faster than light
so do up your overcoat tight
and you'll go anywhere you want to decide, well alright
too many people side by side
got no place to hide
on my supersonic rocket ship
nobody has to be hip
nobody needs to be out of sight (oh out of sight, man)
nobody's gonna travel second class
there'll be equality
and no suppression of minorities
we'll take this planet, shake it round
and turn it upside down
my supersonic rocket ship
(orchestral winds WITHOUT sax "oh no" phones)
it ain't no magic, ain't no lie
you'll laugh so loud you'll cry
up and down, 'round and 'round
on my supersonic rocket ship
let me take you on a little trip
my supersonic ship's at your disposal
if you feel so inclined, well alright
nobody's gonna travel second class
there'll be equality
and no suppression of minorities, well alright
let me take you on a little trip
on my supersonic rocket ship
from the 1969 album "Waiting For The Sun" (perception remaster)
edit: a home stereo equipment effect for headphones... well, supposed to be...
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Edit 2 for headphones. A real deep bass that you can feel trembling... if you have a decent set of headphones...
Recorded May, 1968. Released on "Beggars Banquet" in 1968.
Vocals: Mick Jagger. Acoustic guitar: Keith Richards. Mandolin: Dave Mason. Violin/fiddle: Rik Grech. Congas: Rocky Dijon. Bass: Bill Wyman. Charlie Watts: tabla.
FACTORY GIRL
(Jagger/Richards)
Waiting for a girl who's got curlers in her hair
Waiting for a girl she has no money anywhere
We get buses everywhere
Waiting for a factory girl
Waiting for a girl and her knees are much too fat
Waiting for a girl who wears scarves instead of hats
Her zipper's broken down the back
Waiting for a factory girl
Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night
She's a sight for sore eyes
Waiting for a factory girl
Waiting for a girl and she's got stains all down her dress
Waiting for a girl and my feet are getting wet
She ain't come out yet
Waiting for a factory girl
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www.songfacts.com says:
This is a song about poverty. It was Mick Jagger's first attempt at a serious song with meaning.
Dave Mason, who played the acoustic guitar for the Jimi Hendrix Experience and sang background on songs such as "Crosstown Traffic" and "Fire," agreed to play mandolin on this song.
Ric Grech was brought in to play fiddle on this. Grech was a violinist and bass player who was a member of the band Family in the '60s and went on to play in Blind Faith with Eric Clapton. He also played on Gram Parsons' solo albums in the '70s, and he appears on Ron Wood and Ronnie Lane's 1976 Mahoney's Last Stand project.
Drummer Charlie Watts: "On Factory Girl, I was doing something you shouldn't do, which is playing the tabla with sticks instead of trying to get that sound using your hand, which Indian tabla players do, though it's an extremely difficult technique and painful if you're not trained."
Guitarist Keith Richards: "To me Factory Girl felt something like Molly Malone, an Irish jig; one of those ancient Celtic things that emerge from time to time, or an Appalachian song. In those days I would just come up and play something, sitting around the room. I still do that today."
Edit for headphones, April 2022. A song (track B4) from the 1967 album "A Hard Road". In 1967 the album remained for 19 weeks in the UK Albums Chart where it topped at #10.
Personnel on the album:
Lead guitar – Peter Green
Vocals – Peter Green (tracks: A3, B3)
Vocals, organ, piano – John Mayall
Harmonica – John Mayall (tracks: A1, A3, A7, B2, B7)
Bass guitar – John McVie
Drums – Aynsley Dunbar
Guitar (5 string) – John Mayall (tracks: B1, B5)
Guitar (9 string) – John Mayall (tracks: B3, B7)
Reeds – Alan Skidmore, John Almond, Ray Warleigh
THE SUPER-NATURAL
(Peter Green)
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Edit 3 for headphones. Over a hundred and thirty photos of the one this song is about....
Mellotron, guitar, backing vocals: Brian Jones. Percussion: Brian Jones & Mick Jagger. Lead & backing vocals: Mick Jagger. Piano: Nicky Hopkins. Guitar & backing vocals: Keith Richards. Bass & backing vocals: Bill Wyman. Drums: Charlie Watts. Strings: arranged by John Paul Jones (who was doing session work two years before he joined Led Zeppelin). Nicky Hopkins played piano on this song. Hopkins, along with Ian Stewart and Billy Preston, played on Stones albums from "Between The Buttons" in 1967 until "Black And Blue" in 1976. Preston usually played on the more gospel-sounding songs where an organ was required; Stewart played boogie-woogie on the fast songs, and Hopkins played on the ballads.
Recorded May 18, 1967. "She's a Rainbow" was released as a single in December 1967. Charts: Holland no.2 (it was in the Dutch charts for 16 weeks), Switzerland no.3, Austria no.8, Australia no.9, Canada no.9, France no.10, Belgium no.13, Spain no.19, US no.25. It took fourty years before it charted no.25 in Denmark, in 2007, yeah, Denmark's first sign of backwardness...* Didn't chart in the UK.
This was one of the first songs The Rolling Stones produced without manager Andrew Loog Oldham. Apple used this in 1999 commercials for their colorful iMac computers. Sony used the song in an advert for Bravia color tv's.
When you love someone you write love songs to & about her, especially someone as spectacularly beautiful as Marianne. This song is about Marianne Faithfull. Alas, the song lasted longer than their love... I have more than two thousand photos of Marianne and selected these one, for some reason I just couldn't stand any photo with Jagger on it, I hate his attitude...
* Denmark is the first European country that intensifies the blocking of videos on YouTube, obediently following the latest European rules on "piracy". Well, if I'm a pirate, then Yankee Doodle was an islamic terrorist. (Dozens and dozens and dozens of my videos are already blocked in Denmark.)
SHE'S A RAINBOW
(Jagger/Richards)
she comes in colors everywhere
she combs her hair, she's like a rainbow
coming colors in the air
mm, everywhere, she comes in colors
she comes in colors everywhere
she combs her hair, she's like a rainbow
coming colors in the air, oh, everywhere
she comes in colors
have you seen her dressed in blue
see the sky in front of you
and her face is like a sail
speck of white so fair and pale
have you seen a lady fairer
she comes in colors everywhere
she combs her hair, she's like a rainbow
coming colors in the air, mm everywhere
she comes in colors
have you seen her all in gold
like a queen in days of old
she shoots colors all around
like a sunset going down
have you seen a lady fairer
she comes in colors everywhere
she combs her hair, she's like a rainbow
coming colors in the air, oh everywhere
she comes in colors
she's like a rainbow
coming colors in the air
oh everywhere
she comes in colours
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Van Morrison performing his lip sync "Brown Eyed Girl" - in a peculiar way... way ahead of his time or just annoyed by the audience... (Or is it stage fright?)(*) I replaced the video's mono song for the stereo version and gave it a special 'touch'.
This is one of Van's most played songs on the radio, but he doesn't get a cent in royalties because of some crappy contract deal with a sleazy producer he signed.
BROWN EYED GIRL
(George Ivan Morrison aka Van Morrison)
Hey, where did we go
Days when the rains came ?
Down in the hollow
Playing a new game,
Laughing and a-running, hey, hey,
Skipping and a-jumping
In the misty morning fog with
Our, our hearts a-thumping
And you, my brown-eyed girl,
You, my brown-eyed girl.
Whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down to the old mine with a
Transistor radio.
Standing in the sunlight laughing
Hide behind a rainbow's wall,
Slipping and a-sliding
All along the waterfall
With you, my brown-eyed girl,
You, my brown-eyed girl.
Do you remember when we used to sing
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah
Just like that
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah
La dee dah.
So hard to find my way
Now that I'm all on my own.
I saw you just the other day,
My, how you have grown!
Cast my memory back there, Lord,
Sometime I'm overcome thinking about
Making love in the green grass
Behind the stadium
With you, my brown-eyed girl,
You, my brown-eyed girl.
Do you remember when we used to sing
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah
Laying in the green grass
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah
Dee dah dee dah dee dah dee dah dee dah dee
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la la
Dee dah la dee dah la dee dah la
D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d...
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